The Roles of Ethnic Theater in Immigrant Communities in the United States 1850-1930

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries millions of Europeans left their homes to form immigrant communities in the United States. Much of the literature about those immigrant communities focuses upon problems such as their ecomonic [economic] hardships, prejudices against them, and their difficulties adjusting to an unfamiliar environment. It is equally important, however, to study the strengths of these communities, their rich internal life, and the institutions that expressed and sustained that life. One of the most significant and least studied of these institutions was the foreign language, or ethnic, theater

[Review of] Rose Basile Green. Songs of Ourselves

The time has come to be both joyous and lyrical about the particular exhilaration in the experience of the American immigrants and their descendents, writes Rose Basile Green in the introduction of this volume of poetry. In lifting harmonized voices, the people of this nation sing in a symphony of one theme-we are all Americans (4)

[Review of] Melvin G. Holli and Peter d\u27A. Jones (Eds.). The Ethnic Frontier: Group Survival in Chicago and the Midwest

The reader seeking fresh and intellectually stimulating material on American ethnic history will find The Ethnic Frontier: Group Survival in Chicago and the Midwest a rewarding book. Editors Melvin G. Holli and Peter d\u27A. Jones have assembled a collection of first-rate original scholarly articles that provide new insights into issues of group survival, assimilation, and conflict in the United States